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THE SILENT SEA.
Remember (if indeed there be any need to remind you) that it is a flagrant landsman who is telling you this tale.

Nothing know I of seamanship, save what one could not avoid picking up on the round voyage of the Lady Jermyn, never to be completed on this globe.

I may be told that I have burned that devoted vessel as nothing ever burned on land or sea.

I answer that I write of what I saw, and that is not altered by a miscalled spar or a misunderstood manouvre.